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  • Vol 53 No 3
  •  3rd February 2012

Fanfares for Africa

The latest fanfare for Africa’s economic prospects comes from the Economist Intelligence Unit’s survey of fund and asset managers, bankers and other financiers for Invest AD, the sovereign fund formerly known as the Abu Dhabi Investment Company.

  • Vol 53 No 2
  •  20th January 2012

New technology, new repression

Authoritarian regimes’ use of cellphones is under the spotlight

  • Vol 53 No 1
  •  6th January 2012

The long march speeds up

Stronger economies, better education and technology are driving more political change and unrest

  • Vol 52 No 24
  •  2nd December 2011

Storm warning

Economic gloom in Europe and North America will slow African growth next year and may spark more challenges to incumbent regimes

  • Vol 52 No 23
  •  18th November 2011

Nigeria and South Africa stand up

This year, for the first time, Africa’s two heavyweights, Nigeria and South Africa, were on the United Nations Security Council and both wanted to make their mark. The verdict is mixed. Nigeria did well, observers say, while most prefer not to mention SA ...

  • Vol 52 No 23
  •  18th November 2011

Perth pangs

The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) in Perth, Western Australia, at the end of October attracted 1,500 delegates, 80 of them from China. British Prime Minister David Cameron’s threat to tie aid to lifting of homophobic legislation in Afri...

  • Vol 52 No 20
  •  7th October 2011

Good boom, bad timing

Asian demand for African agricultural and mineral commodities will not fully compensate the losses caused by the West’s economic slowdown

  • Vol 52 No 20
  •  7th October 2011

Getting the right numbers

It is the biggest economic success story in Africa. The growth of mobile telephony is phenomenal – in numbers, in jobs created and in the economic development it is driving. African software engineers are pioneering the development of payment systems over...

  • Vol 52 No 20
  •  7th October 2011

Banking on the move

Developed jointly by British software firm Sagentia and Kenya’s Safaricom with the help of a British grant, M-Pesa banking services are a success story. Pesa means ‘money’ in Kiswahili and M (for mobile)-Pesa offers a savings facility of up to 50,000 Keny...

  • Vol 52 No 17
  •  26th August 2011

Gadaffi falls, revolution rises

Declaring victory after six months of war, the new regime in Tripoli has rejuvenated the Arab Spring and may promote political change further south

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